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Released: 2002-02-12
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Title Tracks for The Essential Johnny Cash
- 1. Hey Porter
- 2. Cry, Cry, Cry
- 3. I Walk The Line
- 4. Get Rhythm
- 5. There You Go
- 6. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
- 7. Big River
- 8. Guess Things Happen That Way
- 9. All Over Again
- 10. Don't Take Your Guns To Town
- 11. Five Feet High And Rising
- 12. The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
- 13. Tennessee Flat-Top Box
- 14. I Still Miss Someone
- 15. Ring Of Fire
- 16. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
- 17. Orange Blossom Special
- 18. Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
- 19. It Ain't Me, Babe (w/ June Carter Cash)
- 20. The One On The Right Is On The Left
- 21. Jackson (w/ June Carter Cash)
- 22. Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
- 23. Daddy Sang Bass
- 24. Girl From The North Country (w/ Bob Dylan)
- 25. A Boy Named Sue (Live)
- 26. If I Were A Carpenter
- 27. Sunday Morning Coming Down
- 28. Flesh And Blood
- 29. Man In Black
- 30. Ragged Old Flag
- 31. One Piece At A Time
- 32. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
- 33. Song Of The Patriot (w/ Marty Robbins)
- 34. Highwayman (w/ Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson)
- 35. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (w/ Waylon Jennings)
- 36. The Wanderer (w/ U2)
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Japanese Blu-Spec CD pressing of this classic album. The Blue Spec format takes Blu-ray disc technology to create CD's which are compatible with normal CD players but provides ultra high quality sound. Sony. 2009.
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It's a great and perhaps impossible challenge to encapsulate the highlights of Johnny Cash's vast musical catalog in a two-CD, 36-song collection like this. Yet, though it barely scratches the surface, 2002's The Essential Johnny Cash--part of a series of compilations and reissues celebrating Cash's 70th birthday--does present three-dozen satisfying and balanced snapshots of some of the Man in Black's most memorable work for the Sun, Columbia, and Mercury labels. Above all else, these 36 selections are wonderful reminders of Cash's rustic eclecticism. Cuts range from '50s Sun rockabilly classics like "Hey Porter" and "I Walk the Line" to '60s country-folk gems like "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and Cash's memorable duet with Bob Dylan on Dylan's "Girl from the North Country." Also included are more recent samplings of Cash's celebrated collaborations, including "Highwayman," which he recorded in 1984 with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson as part of the on-again, off-again supergroup the Highwaymen, and "The Wanderer," a fervent gospel collaboration with U2 that appeared on the band's 1993 album, Zooropa. --Bob Allen
Product Details
The Essential Johnny Cash
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2002-02-12)
- Publisher: Sony
- Label: Sony
- Format: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
- Studio: Sony
- Sales Rank in Music: #375
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249 of 256 people found the following review helpful:  The "early "essential Johnny Cash and a fitting tribute, By This review is from: The Essential Johnny Cash (Audio CD) This double-CD version of "The Essential Johnny Cash," not to be confused with a three-CD set with the same title that came out a decade earlier, was issued to commemorate Cash's 70th birthday. Consequently, it has ended up serving as a fitting tribute album to remember the Man in Black who died this month. It provides a more than adequate look at his career from 1955-1993, which, unfortunately, does mean it stops before his brilliant 1994 recording "American Recordings." However, this is a minor point because that is an essential Johnny Cash album in its own right, along with the Sixties albums "At Folsom Prison" and "At San Quentin." However, for someone who discovers that they do not have a Johnny Cash album in their music library, this is certainly a good place to start. This version of "The Essential Johnny Cash" focuses on the early years, with the vast majority of tracks coming from the 1950s and 1960s. Actually, there...Read more 113 of 116 people found the following review helpful: Excellent Retrospective, By This review is from: The Essential Johnny Cash (Audio CD) Johnny Cash was an American music icon known to the world as the "Man in Black." His booming deep bass voice is surely one of the most recognizable in country music history. While his vocal range was fairly limited, it was incredibly effective at conveying the plight of the common man. As befits a legend, there are several Cash collections available. This double disc is my favorite because it captures nearly all of the highlights of Cash's recording career between 1955 and 1993 (since then he put out four excellent albums on American Records as well). This chronological collection begins with eights hits from his tenure at Sun Records (1955-1958). Each of these great recordings, such as his double-sided hit debut "Cry, Cry, Cry"/"Hey Porter," "I Guess Things Happen That Way," "I Walk The Line," and his biggest chart hit "Ballad Of A Teenage Queen" (ten weeks at number one!) features a "boom-chicka-boom"...Read more 31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:  Not a Complete History, But Still a Winner, By This review is from: The Essential Johnny Cash (Audio CD) This collection was released in conjunction with Cash's 70th birthday, and the CD booklet is filled with testaments to the Man in Black from the likes of Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard to Paul McCartney, Bono, Chrissie Hynde, Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Ray Davies and Kirk Hammett. Anyone who can be an influence on such diverse artists as these has been doing something right since first stepping into Sam Phillips' Sun Studios in 1955.The set leans awfull heavy on Cash's Fifties and Sixties material. Tracks 1-8 are from his tenure at Sun. The rest of disc one and the first seven tracks of disc two take us through the end of the Sixties. The only track from the past fifteen years is "The Wanderer," taken from U2's 1993 Zooropa album. What's missing is any of Cash's Nineties work with Rick Rubin. But if you're looking for an inexpensive overview (with an emphasis on the hits) of one of country music's most influential artists, you can't go wrong here. (I would...Read more |
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